Go to parties. You can't even start to know what you may find on the envelope of serendipity. If you suffer from agoraphobia, send colleagues.

The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist

Don't aim to be perfect! Aim to be antifragile

Scientists may be in the business of laughing at their predecessors, but owing to an array of human mental dispositions, few realize that someone will laugh at their beliefs in the (disappointingly near) future.

Rationalism crashes in the tails.

There are systems that use failure as fuel for improvement, where the cost of failure is small.

Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises with debt spending